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id: opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift
version: "1.21.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift — Jaeger Thrift Exporter for OpenTelemetry

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 610.6K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package bridges OpenTelemetry tracing instrumentation to Jaeger, a distributed tracing platform, by exporting span data via the Thrift protocol. It integrates with opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk to capture and forward traces from your application to a Jaeger backend for visualization and analysis.

However, the package is deprecated: Jaeger has supported OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) natively since v1.35, and this Thrift exporter reached end-of-support in July 2023. The package is no longer being tested and has not been released since November 2023. New projects should use the OTLP exporter instead; this package is suitable only for maintaining legacy Jaeger deployments that still require Thrift protocol support.

Use it for:

- Export traces from legacy applications already instrumented with OpenTelemetry to Jaeger backends that do not yet support OTLP.
- Maintain compatibility with existing Jaeger deployments configured to receive Thrift-protocol traces.
- Integrate OpenTelemetry tracing into older microservice architectures where Jaeger is the established observability backend.
- Debug and visualize distributed request flows across services by exporting traces to Jaeger's UI.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Exports OpenTelemetry tracing data to Jaeger using the Thrift protocol for distributed tracing and observability.

No, unless you are maintaining a legacy Jaeger deployment that requires Thrift protocol support. The package is deprecated, no longer tested, and reached end-of-support in July 2023. New projects should use the OTLP exporter instead. For existing deployments, evaluate whether upgrading to Jaeger v1.35+ and switching to OTLP is feasible before adopting this package.

## Install

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift
uv add opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift
poetry add opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift

## Installing opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift

Before you install: Low install friction with three straightforward runtime dependencies. Actively maintained repository, though the package itself has not been released since 2023-11-07 and is no longer being tested—Jaeger has supported OTLP natively since v1.35, and this exporter's support ended July 2023.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), imposing no significant restrictions on use or redistribution.

Quickstart:

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift

from opentelemetry.exporter.jaeger.thrift import JaegerExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor

jaeger_exporter = JaegerExporter(agent_host_name="localhost")
tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
tracer_provider.add_span_processor(SimpleSpanProcessor(jaeger_exporter))

Requires a running Jaeger agent or collector accessible at the configured host and port to receive exported traces.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package will continue to receive security patches or bug fixes despite being out of active support.
- Whether existing Jaeger v1.35+ deployments can still accept Thrift exports or have fully migrated to OTLP-only.
- Performance or compatibility implications of using this deprecated exporter versus the recommended OTLP alternative.

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 610.6K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

jaeger tracing exporter, opentelemetry jaeger thrift, distributed tracing export, jaeger trace collector, opentelemetry instrumentation, thrift protocol tracing, distributed-tracing, observability, deprecated

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